SOME EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 205, 30 August 1893, Page 8

SOME EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.

WHY THE GIRL TOLD LIES.

OF A WICKED NATURE,

Mr Baume : Why do you tell lies ?

Miss Dal'/.iel : Because 1 am of a wicked nature. I don't know exactly why I tell lies. It . depends on the occasion, (Laughter.)

Mrßaumo: Did you tell Mi' 3 Goodwin lies on August 16th ? Witness -. Ye.j.

Mr Baume : Wluifc did you tell her ? Witness: I told hot that my father beat me severely, that I had to atrip off my clothes and pub a nightdress over my bare body on my father's order.' I also told her that I was beaten all over, my body had a great number of marks. Mr Baume : Did you have any marks on your body ? Witness : 1 don't know. I could not see my back. Mr Baurae : Did you feel any pain when you spoke to Mrs Goodwin. Witness : I did not feel any pain at the timo I saw Mra Goodwin. This wa3 that night about 7or S o'clock. 1 was at that i time quite able to walk, bub I told Mrs | Goodwin that. I had pain. I showed Mrs Goodwin part of my body. I had no reason for showing her my body. i The I!.M. at this stage ruled, "The witness is hostile," he said, " tho witness is hostile. She tells lies, for hor statements aro certainly very contradictory." Mr Buume sakt : j am here in sympathy wit!) the witness. Really, 1 foci tho more 1 hear, tho inoro reason is chero for her protection. Witness want on to say : I showed Mrs Goodwin my naked body in confidence, to sco it thero wer-j any marks on it. Mrs Goodwin said there wero blue marks on it. 1 like Mrw Goodwill. Mr Biuune : Do you think she would tell the truth '.' Mr liras6Gy, interrupting, said, "You might as well ask if i would tell the truth.'' { Laughter,)

Witness: It was tho lower part of my back v-'hich 1 showed Mra Goodwin. This part of my body was not that covered by my ijtays where I stated i was alono struck. The marks thero luifrht have occurred from something uko. 1 cannot account for the marks.

Mr IJauaie : Did you toll anyone else any lias about tin's assault?

Witness: Yo^. 1 told Mrs Clarkson. I saw her on our farm tho came day. 1 did not tell her that i could hardly walk. 1 told her that I had been punished by my father with tho tawso. 1 told her that 1 had bean mado to strip, i told her I had been bleeding ftom the no?e through tho punishment I had received from Mr:< Palziel. .1 once told Clarkson thai I had been deprived oi food and was very hungry, but did not gay ho on this occasion. This statement was not false. I have sufficient food to eat, if I will take it. I refuse my food sometimes for certain reasons. I did not call oub very loudly or shriek while my father was beating me. Did not call out at all. I requested to be boaten, but I did not like it. .1 yaw McGovern again on tho 18th at our house. I did not repeat the lies I had told him. The const, brought me a paper to sign. 1 told him that 1 understood proceedings wouid be taken if 1 signed it. 1 refused to si^-n it. McGovern then said that my signing the paper would make no (Left sitting.)